Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, recently jointly won an award for “Best Innovation in Commercial Deployment” with Vodafone Group at the 2013 Small Cell World Summit in London. The award cited a project for a “MetroZone Small Cell Solution [that] enable[s] ‘Smart Cities’ today and in the future.”

Huawei’s AtomCell small cell solution provides light-weight and compact small cell base stations with flexible LTE TDD wireless backhaul transmission for easy, dense and unobtrusive deployments in urban settings. AtomCell technology was integral in realizing the MetroZone small cell solution project.

David Wang, President of Huawei’s Wireless Network Business Unit, said: "The award demonstrates Huawei's AtomCell small cell solution has been leading the development of wireless broadband and is capable of meeting operator requirements. Huawei continues to be confident in its mission to build efficient and profitable broadband network for operators all over the world."